{"id":372863,"date":"2026-01-16T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:29:08","slug":"location-of-first-walk-in-gp-clinic-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372863\/","title":{"rendered":"Location of first walk-in GP clinic announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The units will provide assessment and treatment for people with urgent but non-emergency medical problems, where patients need to be seen the same day but do not require hospital care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking as he visited the Wester Hailes site, Gray said he was &#8220;determined to keep driving forward improvements&#8221; in the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walk-in services will make it easier to access urgent care on the day it&#8217;s needed, while easing pressure on GP practices and hospitals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new centres will be open seven days per week between 12:00 and 20:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tracey McKigen, director of primary care at NHS Lothian, said the health board was &#8220;working closely&#8221; with the Scottish government, Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership and the Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre to deliver the new service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;While plans are still being refined, we believe the new service will help improve access to primary care and complement existing local health services.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The units will provide assessment and treatment for people with urgent but non-emergency medical problems, where patients need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}